[sdrinf]

That sounds an excellent idea! In fact, it sounds so excellent, it's already built, deployed, and used by millions, under the domain name vimeo.com .

However, the business problem raised by mooism2 -specifically, revenue streams, and covering costs - have visible consequences, in that the vast majority of content producers would opt not to pay for distribution of their content.

Also note, that youtube was never built to generate revenue -it was specifically built to flop to one of the big players.

In short, to consider this as an opportunity, you need to radically innovate on extracting alternative revenue streams from viewers, producers, or third parties.

[meerita]

We also have Twitch.tv. You pay, no ads.

[corin_]

Very different content concept though: it's a gaming focus, and it's very much a live-content focus (can't remember exact figures, but their VOD viewing is tiny compared to live-stream viewing). And even then, the majority of their revenue is going to stay with advertising, not subscriptions.

[meerita]

I only enter Youtube to follow videobloggers gamers. I understand the point, but well, usstream I guess its wide open compared. I just gave an example.

[corin_]

Going off topic a little, do you follow any Europeans? I'm looking for suggestions of people to sponsor, and always interested to hear opinions!

[meerita]

There's Athene in Belgium. He's pretty huge videobloguer, but the EU are moving to USA and streaming a lot.